On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
In Africa, the birthday of two hundred and twenty holy martyrs.
At Tangier in Morocco, St. Marcellus, a centurion, who endured martyrdom by being beheaded under the vice-prefect Agricolaus.
At Alexandria, in the reign of Decius, thirteen holy martyrs who suffered with Saints Julian, Eunus and Macarius.
In the same place, St. Eutropia, martyr, who visited the martyrs, and was so cruelly tortured with them that she breathed her last.
At Cagliari in Sardinia, St. Saturninus, martyr, who was beheaded under the governor Barbarus during the persecution of Diocletian.
At Apamea in Phrygia, St. Maximus, martyr, under the same Diocletian.
At Leon in Spain, the holy martyrs Claudius, Lupercus and Victorius, sons of the centurion St. Marcellus, who were condemned to decapitation in the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian under the governor Diogenian.
At Ægea in Cilicia, the martyrdom of the Saints Zenobius, bishop, and Zenobia, his sister, under the emperor Diocletian and the governor Lysias.
At Altino, St. Theonestus, bishop and martyr, who was killed by the Arians.
At Paris, St. Lucanus, martyr.
At Antioch, St. Serapion, a bishop very celebrated for his learning.
At Capua, St. Germanus, bishop and confessor, a man of great sanctity, whose soul, at the hour of death, was seen by St. Benedict taken to heaven by angels.
At Potenza in Basilicata, St. Gerard, bishop.
At Palma on the island of Majorca, St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, a lay brother of the Society of Jesus, who Pope Leo XII beatified and Pope Leo XIII canonised on account of his remarkable humility and constant love of mortification.
And in other places, many other holy martyrs, confessors and virgins.
Thanks be to God.
